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Acknowledging The Empty Holiday Chairs
For many people, the holidays are a time for recognizing our profound fullness: of purposefully dwelling on the abundant overflow we find ourselves in and being grateful for it.
For many, our houses and our bellies bulge to capacity and we gleefully overindulge in food and friends and laughter. We fill ourselves to bursting with all the things, the people, and the stuff that make life glorious and make the difficulties bearable.
For lots of people, this is a season where they inventory their lives and readily acknowledge all that is good and sweet and right.
It is about celebrating presence…
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